By Justin Vincent & Jason Roberts
If you're a hacker, you'll probably like our show ;)
Justin and Jason discuss why Jason thinks it may be time to put an end to the show, why Justin stopped working on Lyte and why he quit his low-calorie diet, the Chrome plug-in for motivation, nearsourcing work to Mexican consulting firms, Aaron...
Justin talks to Gabriel Weinberg about the re-release of his book Traction and the latest news on DuckDuckGo.
Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s new diabetes-reversing diet, the growing momentum of the Math Academy and Jason’s new madness, getting Lyte out the door, lessons learned through playing StarCraft that are useful in real life, using unfairness to your advantage,...
Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s secret project, Lyte, how he built it and what he sees as its future, the possibility of transforming the math class into a math academy, how Uber is making the world a better place, why inexpensive...
Justin and Jason discuss the move from Perioscope to Meerkat, Justin’s health update and why he got rid of his treadmill, how Colby blew the curve on the math final, the field trip to Caltech and the visit from the...
Justin and Jason discuss the technical issues of streaming the show using Periscope, the possible resurrection of Empath, Jason’s advising CTO strategy, fear-based parenting, Justin’s secret project and reserving a name in the app store, the Seasteading Institute, nature vs. nurture,...
Justin talks with Mike Taber author of The Single Founder Handbook
Justin and Jason discuss Jason’s recent near-death experience and how his brother’s childhood friend has a small part on The Walking Dead, the Reddit button, how Jason is trading coding hours for Robocraft hours with Colby, kids and electronics, the iWatch and why people are always...
Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s recent purchasing debacles and his latest plan for getting healthy, the latest on Jason’s various injuries, Justin as Burger Meister, Meister Burger, the math team’s big success at Math Field Day, how Jason is connecting...
Justin and Jason discuss the difficulty of finding a time to record the show, Justin’s walking-desk disaster, his new secret project and his thoughts on using Titanium, the latest on the MVCC, Justin’s movie concept, the show The 100, the...
Justin and Jason discuss the impending delivery of Justin’s walking desk and his health and fitness dilettantism, why Instapaper has become just another “to-do list” for Jason, their respective Hacker News reading strategies, the latest on MV Code Club, how...
Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s short-lived madness about algorithmic trading, the book Building Algorithmic Trading Systems, using neural networks to predict the future price of Bitcoin, why Jason said no to doing the MIT Circuits & Electronics MOOC with his friend Phil, the unexpected...
Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s rebound project and the myriad questions Justin has about HFT (high-frequency trading), learning to code with CodeAvengers and CodeCombat, the latest on Operation Superhero and MV Code Club, scaling with Node.js at Uber, posting error...
Justin and Jason discuss why Disco hasn’t worked out and what Justin has learned from the experience, balancing product development with sales and marketing, how to select and validate a business idea, the basics of algorithmic trading, how Jason increased...
Jason talks with Mike Walmsley, the founder and primary developer of the programming education site Code Avengers.
Justin and Jason discuss the summit and the prospect of hosting another one, whether growing the show would be possible or even make a difference, whether World War III could stop a rising population, how HP’s Thermal Inkjet printing is...
Justin and Jason discuss the TZ summit, the prospect of establishing a colony on Mars and what that process might look like, the prospect of an Ebola pandemic, betting on black swans and counterparty risk, why the TV show Lost...
Justin and Jason discuss the upcoming summit, the latest on Disco, Justin’s life with a newborn, the summit’s super sponsors, MV Code Club’s new location and possible sources of growth capital, how the brain can classify words during sleep and how people...
Justin and Jason speak with Dr. Doug McGuff about his book, Body by Science: A Research Based Program for Strength Training, Body building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week. A special shoutout goes to Andy Chamberlain who emailed Justin...
Justin and Jason talk with Gabriel Weinberg, founder of DuckDuckGo, about his new book Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers. Gabriel also appears in the following TechZing shows: 68 TZ Interview – Gabriel Weinberg & DuckDuckGo 91: TZ Panel – Phil...
Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s new baby and all of the related complications, an update on Jason’s weight-loss and fitness program and why he’s so skeptical of Justin’s 15-minutes-per-week workout, the new pullout math class for the 5th-grade math team, an...
Justin and Jason discuss the movie Guardians of the Galaxy and the show Halt and Catch Fire, why they both like the post-apocalyptic genre, the final dates for the TechZing Summit, a progress report on Operation Superhero, Justin’s “audacious goal” of starting a funk...
Justin and Jason discuss Jason’s ambitious health and fitness plan, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s six rules of success, why Jason has decided to pursue his two long-time athletic goals of bench pressing 315 lbs and of dunking a basketball, Karch Kiraly’s athletic transformation at the age...
Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s upcoming trip to Mexico, their new low-sugar / high-protein diet and HIIT training regime, the TechZing Summit, how Justin has STILL not received hisSoylent, Jason’s interview on Bootstrapped with Kids, how Jason found a personal instructor to teach him electrical engineering, the...
Justin talks to Derrick Reimer and Rob Walling about the Drip tech stack.
Justin and Jason discuss the details of Jason’s angel investment in the Mill Valley Code Club, Jason’s weight-loss plan, the power of gradualism, the time required to form a new habit, the importance of short and long-term goals, accountability and positive feedback loops, how...
Justin and Jason discuss Jason’s recent trip to Disneyland, the latest progress on Disco, Jason’s first angel investment, how Justin has been slowly accumulating Bitcoin, finding a remote, junior Rails developer, the site We Work Remotely, Jason’s new weight-loss plan,StrongLifts, the...
Justin and Jason discuss the TechZing Summit, the last session of Catalyst, Uber’s new office and Jason’s thoughts on Uber’s rapid growth, Justin’s “no DB” project, how options work at most venture-funded startups, getting compensated in convertible debt, Jason’s experience with AirPair and why you should...
Justin and Jason discuss Jason’s night with the “Korean billionaires”, the 30 for 30 documentary The Opposition, the big Digedu demo, Justin’s excitement over Node.js and socket.io, why Jason turned down an IdeaLab company, how Justin finally sold Pluggio and the new side project...
Justin, Jason and special guest Ben Reyes discuss Ben’s investment in Tesla and investing in general, Bitcoin as a technology and whether Dorian is the real Satoshi, how experts found that Mt.Gox lost a mere 386 Bitcoin due to transaction malleability, pending comments on...
Jason talks with Nathan Hawkins about his new (TCG) trading card game Conjure, what it took to create it and how they’re bringing it to market.
Justin and Jason discuss why the show has been on a mini hiatus, the Spritz speedreading technology and the open source bookmarklet, Justin’s Catalyst experiment, the face behind Bitcoin, the denial and some confirmations by Los Angeles County deputies, what most likely happened at Mt Gox, autotrading crypto-currencies at Cryptotrader,...
Justin and Jason discuss why they’re not going to change the name of the show, the unpaid bill that launched a thousand starships, the cryptography breakthrough that could make software unhackable, how GoPro is going public, Russia’s banning of Bitcoin, China’s large scale 3D printers, the...
Justin and Jason discuss Digedu’s latest technical hire, how Uber’s real-time team uses Github, the growth of Uber’s engineering team and what Jason has been working on, building software that never gets used and the three criteria by which to evaluate a...
Justin and Jason discuss Digedu’s latest technical hire, Quizlet’s incredible feedback center, the PHP logging extension Datadog, the realtime dashboard that Jason built for Uber, why hackers haven’t been more creative in the types of targets they’ve gone after, when it makes...
Justin and Jason discuss the animated series Archer and why it’s no longer going to be about spies, how the NSA is attempting to build a quantum computer, how a France-UAE satellite deal is shaky after NSA spy tech was discovered onboard, how California legislators are...
Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s hiring strategy for Digedu and IBM’s notorious “Black Team”, the women in tech controversy and how it misrepresented Paul Graham’s statements on the matter, how Jason finally conquered the Triangle Peg Board Game, his recent day at the slopes and his idea for a...
Justin and Jason discuss how 0.01 Bitcoin was donated to the show, why Justin has been blogging so much lately, their respective Christmas plans and family traditions, an intriguing anti-ageing compound that’s set for human trials, an Oxford debate on ageing, why science...
Justin and Jason discuss why they like recording discussion shows on Friday afternoons, PayPal dispute resolutions, Jason’s friend who lost his business and is now teaching himself how to code, how to determine whether your programmers are lazy, how Fog Creek compensates...
Justin and Jason discuss getting the show back on a weekly schedule, how listener Ben Reyes gave Jason a Bitcoin, China’s stance on crypto currencies and why it’s been to their geopolitical advantage to pin the renminbi to the US dollar, how Bitcoin’s inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto, is now...
Justin and Jason talk with Rob Walling about the rollout of his new project, Drip, as well as a few other assorted topics.
Justin and Jason talk about bringing on a potential marketing partner for AnyFu, why Justin may buy some Twitter shares, Jason’s investment thesis and why he believes Apple is reverting to the mean, Google’s mystery barges, Jason’s post on teaching kids how to...
Justin and Jason discuss the debt ceiling and the government shutdown, the upcoming Limitless television show, a theory on what made Einstein so clever and the difficulty in finding a genetic map for IQ, how the Arsenic DNA paper exposed flaws in the peer review process and The Reproducibility Project, the...
Justin and Jason discuss the emergency emails that Justin received from Digedu while on vacation and why he selected Sifter as a project management tool, how Uber and Digedu use Git, Git rebase vs Git merge and general GitHub bureaucracy, how Digedu...
Justin and Jason discuss the Uber wedding that Jason and Sandy attended over the weekend, their two female listeners, how the most recent Pluggio deal fell through and why Justin has decided to take Pluggio off the market for the time being, what needs...
Justin and Jason discuss Uber’s latest fundraising round, the selling of Pluggio, Rob Walling’s startup Drip, Justin’s hack for creating a tablet unlock code and how’s he looking for a front-end developer, how Tesla achieved a perfect safety rating and captured more than 12% of...
Justin and Jason discuss the details of selling Pluggio, what Justin considers to be the ideal attributes of a SaaS business and his idea for a collaborative web app for doing mockups, the hypocritical startup advise of Ben Horowitz and Dustin Moskowitz, the surprising...
Justin and Jason discuss the canvas-based drawing app that Justin built for Digedu using his JS library known as $$, how Jason got drag and drop working in Titanium and his idea for creating a mobile game for learning electronics,...
Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s two-week work trip to Chicago, Sebastien Arnaud’s recent visit to Pasadena, the tradeoffs of using a custom/personal framework vs a popular open-source framework, how Justin hired listener Jeremy Logan to work with Digedu, balancing feature development with...
Justin and Jason discuss Edward Snowden’s whereabouts and the EU’s faux outrage over the NSA’s spying, World War Z – the movie and the book, the surprising fact that Ensign Harry Kim lives next door to Jason, how the differ library could save Uber big bucks on bandwidth, investing in people with Upstart, why Justin ordered...